Carparks should impose fines for poor parking

RobAMerc

Let me be the first to say I am normally totally opposed to any sort of Nanny stateism and even more opposed to any revenue generation tactics disguised as fines however.

Does anyone else think its about time car parks and clampers etc started to impose fines for people who park so badly they cause issues for other users.
Yesterday I saw a car parked so close to the one next to it the driver of the other car ( an old lady ) was forced to enter her car from the passenger side and climb across into the drivers seat !
The car was parked at almost a 30% angle in the space encroaching cars beside its space with the front nearside bumper almost touching the door of this ladies car, making it impossible for her to get in.

Shouldn't this twat have to pay for such inconsideration - plus parking in 2 spots !

si_guru

Were you listening to RTE 2FM this morning????

There were suggesting replacing the septic tank and household charge with a "bad parking" fine.. €200 for taking more than your own space.

In Japan I suspect they have this....?

alias no.9

si_guru wrote: »

Were you listening to RTE 2FM this morning????

There were suggesting replacing the septic tank and household charge with a "bad parking" fine.. €200 for taking more than your own space.

In Japan I suspect they have this....?

No, Japan just taxes cars very heavily apart from kei cars which couldn't possibly take up two spaces even if driven by an Irish simpleton.

careful, they'll just call it discrimination against men

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056534104

johnayo

A lot of drivers take up 2 spaces intentionally so as to avoid dings and scratches to their bodywork. Whilst this is extremely annoying when you are looking for scarce spaces, some of the carparks have very tight spacing and encourage this kind of behaviour.

subway

cars are bigger than they were in the 80s, make bigger parking spaces...
the picture in the paper this morning of the RR in the Q-Park, those spaces are, i believe, narrower than my car.

keithclancy

Saw Audi A5 parked diagonally across a disabled space, no Disabled pass on the dash.

Reported to the Car Park Attendant.

Audi Clamped.

Anan1

An easy and fair way should be to charge per space - take two and you pay for both.

keithclancy

Anan1 wrote: »

An easy and fair way should be to charge per space - take two and you pay for both.

Or have different width spaces and charge different prices for the smaller/larger space.

I always try to go for a space next to a pillar and park as close as i can to it.

Seen so many people whacking doors in the q-parks.

Yakuza

Anan1 wrote: »

An easy and fair way should be to charge per space - take two and you pay for both.

I saw this in a car park in Galway city centre a few years ago. No idea how you would enforce it, though. Install CCTV with ANPR everywhere, tie the reg to the ticket and check it when they go to pay? It might be fraught with contention too.

Still, I agree with the principle.

ZENER

Great to see the Obnoxious Parking thread back again

Ken

PCPhoto

keithclancy wrote: »

Saw Audi A5 parked diagonally across a disabled space, no Disabled pass on the dash.

Reported to the Car Park Attendant.

Audi Clamped.

This I have a problem with !!

A Car illegally in a disabled bay should be removed and not clamped - clamping it simply keeps the car there and the space unavailable for other users who may need/require the disabled bay.

PCPhoto

keithclancy wrote: »

Or have different width spaces and charge different prices for the smaller/larger space.

I always try to go for a space next to a pillar and park as close as i can to it.

Seen so many people whacking doors in the q-parks.

if you did this you'd have merc owners parking in mini spaces !!

biko

In a sense yeah I agree, sloppy parking is a fecking scourge.

stovelid

Yes.

And if your car is too big for one space, you should pay double the parking fee.

Also punish rude parking: for example, parking on the pedestrian walkways ibetween the parking spaces.

subway

stovelid wrote: »

And if your car is too big for one space, you should pay double the parking fee.

if thats directed at me, i agree, i just drove back out. i have enough issues keeping my car pristine without having to squeeze in between two badly parked cars into a space thats also narrower than the width of my car.

keithclancy

PCPhoto wrote: »

This I have a problem with !!

A Car illegally in a disabled bay should be removed and not clamped - clamping it simply keeps the car there and the space unavailable for other users who may need/require the disabled bay.

AFAIK its not easy to remove a car in a multistorey without the risk of damaging it.

eqwjewoiujqorj

Or this 2.06mins in

dr.fuzzenstein

Well, in the UK they're getting rid of clamping on private land, so over there it's state enforced anarchy, park like a complete dildo and no one can do anything about it.
It's the same here, only caused more by sloppiness, apathy, stupidity, arrogance, laziness and unwillingness to do anything about it rather than anything else
And I don't see it changing any time soon.
It's like having Homer Simpson in charge of safety at a nuclear power plant, best not to think about it...
Seriously, I see what's going on, I shake my head and sigh, but it's not worth considering it any further.
The only thing that could be done would be some kind of thread where this sort of parking could be posted for us to have a good laugh at, wonder if that's been done already...:cool::p

JoeA3

I hate carparks! Inconsiderate careless morons whacking doors into cars parked next to them, my number one pet hate!!

Personally I wouldn't have the neck to take up 2 spaces and certainly wouldn't dare take a disabled spot, but I am choosy about what space to take, where possible.
Try to park next to a pillar / wall, thereby halving the chances of hassle. Definitely avoid MPVs SUV's and anything that looks like the owner doesn't give a toss (that can leave you with few options!)

veritable

i think it should be at the discretion of whomever owns the land.

-Chris-

It'd be dead easy for your local Tesco (or whoever) to make the decision to put those really hard to remove stickers on any inconsiderately parked cars - taking two spaces, in a disabled space without a badge, in a parent & child space without a child, parked up on the footpath etc.

Nobody has the balls to implement it, so I certainly don't see them clamping/fining their badly parked customers.

DanWall

I agree with joeA3. I am sick of getting my doors wacked. The spaces are designed too small. If a car park is not busy, I will take 1 ½ spaces in a quiet area, but I still get some idiot parking next to me.
The fine should be for door wackers!

db330

keithclancy wrote: »

Saw Audi A5 parked diagonally across a disabled space, no Disabled pass on the dash.

Reported to the Car Park Attendant.

Audi Clamped.

Not everyone that needs a disabled spot has one of those blue slips. I had knee surgery recently and due to this needed a disabled spot for a few weeks but i don't have one of the blues slips because my condition is only temporary.

Also on the bad parkers and door dingers, i will purposely park extremely close to other cars parked poorly (drive 4x4 so have side steps so any attempted door dings will damage their door). I will get out my passenger door if necessary. It is selfish when parking is is demand, but like said above spaces are small and people don't want their cars to be damaged.

Mugser

When parking in a supermarket carpark, I will with full intention, park in an area of the car park that would be less frequented, shall we say. And whilst parking, and I will not now or at any other time in the future apologise for this, I will use 4 spaces!!! cos it's my car!!

dr.fuzzenstein

Mugser wrote: »

When parking in a supermarket carpark, I will with full intention, park in an area of the car park that would be less frequented, shall we say. And whilst parking, and I will not now or at any other time in the future apologise for this, I will use 4 spaces!!! cos it's my car!!

No soup for you!

Iwannahurl

Mugser wrote: »

When parking in a supermarket carpark, I will with full intention, park in an area of the car park that would be less frequented, shall we say. And whilst parking, and I will not now or at any other time in the future apologise for this, I will use 4 spaces!!! cos it's my car!!

You are not alone.

Unfortunately.

johnos1984

Mugser wrote: »

When parking in a supermarket carpark, I will with full intention, park in an area of the car park that would be less frequented, shall we say. And whilst parking, and I will not now or at any other time in the future apologise for this, I will use 4 spaces!!! cos it's my car!!

Funnily enough I always park behind a car like this. Most of the time when I return some has also parked at the other end and blocked the car in

Iwannahurl

-Chris- wrote: »

It'd be dead easy for your local Tesco (or whoever) to make the decision to put those really hard to remove stickers on any inconsiderately parked cars - taking two spaces, in a disabled space without a badge, in a parent & child space without a child, parked up on the footpath etc.

Nobody has the balls to implement it, so I certainly don't see them clamping/fining their badly parked customers.

Funny how they have the balls to implement a policy whereby they clamp people for parking their car in one shopping centre and then walking across to another shopping centre on the other side of the road.

Jimdagym

How is a shopping centre supposed to enforce a fine?

johnos1984

Jimdagym wrote: »

How is a shopping centre supposed to enforce a fine?

Same as a private clamping firm.

In fairness you are on their land though

Jimdagym

johnos1984 wrote: »

Same as a private clamping firm.

In fairness you are on their land though

Well a campers won't release you untill you pay, it's easy to see that. What's tesco going to do other than clamp? Keep the barrier down untill your fish fingers thaw???

johnos1984

Jimdagym wrote: »

johnos1984 wrote: »

Same as a private clamping firm.

In fairness you are on their land though

Well a campers won't release you untill you pay, it's easy to see that. What's tesco going to do other than clamp? Keep the barrier down untill your fish fingers thaw???

Send you a fine in the post which you can just ignore.

I got one from macdonalds in the uk which I immediately filled under p.f.o.

Iwannahurl

A MacFine?!

Whatever for?

johnos1984

Iwannahurl wrote: »

A MacFine?!

Whatever for?

Parking for too long in the car park. In fairness I left the car in the car park and went shopping else where

-Chris-

Iwannahurl wrote: »

Funny how they have the balls to implement a policy whereby they clamp people for parking their car in one shopping centre and then walking across to another shopping centre on the other side of the road.

I've seen signs to that effect several times, but I'd say I can count on one hand the number of times I've seen a car clamped on shopping centre property.

Our man in Havana

Private companies cannot fine anyone, they are not the courts or the police. And long may that continue.

Iwannahurl

They don't need them when they can clamp. And that's, er, fine by me, in some cases anyway.

Our man in Havana

Which of very questionable legality also.

kn1

i always park beside an expensive or new car to try and stop those little door dents
usually works !!:D

DanWall

johnos1984 wrote: »

Funnily enough I always park behind a car like this. Most of the time when I return some has also parked at the other end and blocked the car in

You will probably find you have a flat tyre when you return

dr.fuzzenstein

DanWall wrote: »

You will probably find you have a flat tyre when you return

You must live a very stressful life.
I go to car park, park and leave again. During this I stay between the lines and only take up one space.
Funnily enough that never caused me one single problem.
I just cannot understand how some people turn the simple act of parking a car into a baffling ordeal with no end of trouble.
Anyone who will INSIST on taking up several spaces and gets increasingly hysterical about the grief he gets because of that, can only be described as mentally ill.

keithclancy

db330 wrote: »

Not everyone that needs a disabled spot has one of those blue slips. I had knee surgery recently and due to this needed a disabled spot for a few weeks but i don't have one of the blues slips because my condition is only temporary.

Also on the bad parkers and door dingers, i will purposely park extremely close to other cars parked poorly (drive 4x4 so have side steps so any attempted door dings will damage their door). I will get out my passenger door if necessary. It is selfish when parking is is demand, but like said above spaces are small and people don't want their cars to be damaged.

Don't see how that is relevant, the space is for people with a Disabled Badge who have been declared disabled.

It's not for people who do not have a disabled badge that have declared themselves temporarily disabled.

Hence even though you might see yourself as disabled and that genuinely might be the case, thats not what the space is for, its for badge holders.

johnos1984

DanWall wrote: »

johnos1984 wrote: »

Funnily enough I always park behind a car like this. Most of the time when I return some has also parked at the other end and blocked the car in

You will probably find you have a flat tyre when you return

Why? If I've parked legally I see no problem with it.

What your suggesting is petty vandalism and illegal

creedp

keithclancy wrote: »

Don't see how that is relevant, the space is for people with a Disabled Badge who have been declared disabled.

It's not for people who do not have a disabled badge that have declared themselves temporarily disabled.

Hence even though you might see yourself as disabled and that genuinely might be the case, thats not what the space is for, its for badge holders.

Still though very frustrating to watch the 'blue badgers' flicking their badge on the dash before they they frollick off down the path ... in my personal experience there are many more blue badges than people that need blue badges ..

Anan1

DanWall wrote: »

You will probably find you have a flat tyre when you return

You haven't thought this through, have you?;)

Jaysoose

creedp wrote: »

Still though very frustrating to watch the 'blue badgers' flicking their badge on the dash before they they frollick off down the path ... in my personal experience there are many more blue badges than people that need blue badges ..

What a load of old ****e in your personal experience you have determined that there are people getting disabled badges that dont need them..based on what criteria exactly are you making these assumptions other than your own selfish view of the world.

Last year my father had the misfortune to be diagnosed with a very agressive cancer that robbed him off all his strength and as such was given a disabled badge so that myself and the family could drive him to and from the hospital etc and he could be transported without any fuss. On one occassion when exiting the car to go collect him some busbody started looking at me and made the comment "does'nt look very disabled"..needless to say this person got it both barrells and came back with a grovelling apology.

So in short...people like you that make a statement like "'blue badgers' flicking their badge on the dash before they they frollick off down the path" dont have the first clue what your talking about and its depressing that people out there will pass judgment without knowing a god damn thing.

granturismo

Jaysoose wrote: »

Last year my father had the misfortune to be diagnosed with a very agressive cancer that robbed him off all his strength and as such was given a disabled badge so that myself and the family could drive him to and from the hospital etc and he could be transported without any fuss. On one occassion when exiting the car to go collect him some busbody started looking at me and made the comment "does'nt look very disabled"..needless to say this person got it both barrells and came back with a grovelling apology.

Sorry to hear about your dad. I also needed and got a blue badge but luckily have recovered and dont need it anymore.

My recollection from the guidelines issued with the card was that the badge was for the driver only. If the named person was a passenger, the driver was requested not to park in a disabled bay but drop off and pick up the disabled person?

Jaysoose

granturismo wrote: »

Sorry to hear about your dad. I also needed and got a blue badge but luckily have recovered and dont need it anymore.

My recollection from the guidelines issued with the card was that the badge was for the driver only. If the named person was a passenger, the driver was requested not to park in a disabled bay but drop off and pick up the disabled person?

Cheers its for cars that they are travelling in aswell as some may not be in a position to drive, it was deemed that dad driving was a safety issue.

from the http://www.citizensinformation.ie

Disabled Person's Parking Permits or Cards (also known as European Parking Cards or Disabled Parking Badge) are available to people living in Ireland with certain disabilities and those who are registered blind, whether they are drivers or passengers. The parking card can be used by a disabled person in any vehicle in which he or she is travelling. This means that a disabled person who is being driven at different times by different people can bring the parking card with himself or herself and display it in the appropriate vehicle.